Bruno Sammartino Quotes

You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

I love being a Yankee, and it's hard not to. It's a special place to play.

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

Yankee Stadium is a mistake: Not mine - the Giants'.

When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there.

Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

The Greatest Living Yankee is Whitey Ford, who came out of Aviation High School, which was then in Manhattan, and helped pitch the Yankees to victory in the 1950 World Series when he was 21.

I've been a Yankees fan since I was six.

Honestly, at one time I though Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean I wasn't born until 1961 and I grew up in Indiana.

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.

Whether or not anybody had invented the category in his lifetime, Babe Ruth was surely the Greatest Living Yankee almost immediately upon lofting home runs at the Polo Grounds, allowing the Yankees to build their own palace across the Harlem River.

The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.

It wasn't like it is now. But for the types of teams we had, the fans were very good here. On some Thursday afternoon games, we'd get 25,000 fans. That was remarkable. This has always been a great Red Sox city.

Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat.

To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it's unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true.

I always loved playing in New York, where the Yankees fans expect a winning team every year.

Babe Ruth, what can you say? You are almost speechless when people put your name alongside his name. I wish I can go back in time in meet him. Obviously, he was probably the most important sports figure in the world at that time. Hopefully, someday when I pass away, I get to meet him, and then I can really find out what he was really like.

The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.

The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.

If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.'

A-Rod wants to be like Babe Ruth. And people don't realize this, he's a lot like Babe Ruth. Before the playoffs a couple of years ago, A-Rod went to the hospital and promised a dying kid he'd ground out to second for him.